Heinrich Jochums

Heinrich Jochums (* 1904 in Neukirchen ; † 1986 ) was a German Protestant pastor , founder of the Conference of Biblical Training Centers , well-known member of the Bible Association , director of the Evangelical Society for Germany and author of evangelical books and writings.

Live and act

After graduating from university, Jochums studied Protestant theology and philosophy in Bonn, Münster, Tübingen, Erlangen and Edinburgh. After that he was accepted into the vicariate of his church . After passing the second theological exam, he was ordained a pastor . From 1931 to 1934 he was pastor in Delling , from 1934 to 1956 pastor in Eiserfeld (Sieg) . It became clear to him early on - especially in view of the increasingly anti-Christian Nazi ideology - the importance of the Holy Scriptures and the Confession as the basis for the continued existence of the Church. He joined the Confessing Church .

After the liberation from National Socialism , he and others set out to win people for his ideas in his congregations and in the vicinity of Christians who were faithful to the Bible, with the aim of evangelizing all of Germany . In 1960 the " Wuppertal Bible Mission " was founded, the aim of which is to spread the Bible widely . In 1962 the " tent mission " was created in order to be able to reach people in larger cities without the help of intact church buildings. These and other biblically oriented communities and associations, such as the " Neukirchen Mission ", united under the umbrella of the "Evangelical Society for Germany", with whose work Jochums particularly identified and whose chair he held for many years.

It soon became apparent, however, that the Protestant churches in Germany and also in the circles of the Confessing Church drew very different consequences from the church struggle. While Jochums and his colleagues saw the return to the traditional wording of the Scriptures as the starting point for a renewal, other circles, in particular the young theological academics oriented towards Karl Barth and Rudolf Bultmann , saw a reinterpretation of the biblical writings as the basis for a new appropriation of the Gospel . From this dissent a clear and sharp to irreconcilable opposition developed. In his books, Jochums attacked the theologians, whom he called false teachers , who pushed for an existential and also a socially oriented and socially critical interpretation of the Bible texts. This dispute - now ramified into many facets - continues to the present day. Because he saw no shift in the churches as a whole to his concept of faithfulness, Jochums advised in 1973:

“ If necessary, we should also be ready to carry out so-called official acts ourselves. "

In the meantime, the process of differentiation within the Protestant churches and communities has progressed much further, and communities and circles of his way of thinking have already created their own organizational structures beyond the constituted churches. Own Bible schools were founded and own theological offspring were promoted.

Heinrich Jochums was a participant in the 1st All-Christian Peace Assembly of the Christian Peace Conference , which took place in Prague in 1961 .

Honors

• Award of an honorary doctorate

Works

• The Bible is God's Word , Wuppertal: Verlag für Reformatorische Erneuerung, 2000,
• The great disappointment - Karl Barth and the theologies, philosophies, anthropologies of the present, especially in the German-speaking area , Wuppertal: Verlag und Schriftenmission der Evangelische Gesellschaft für Deutschland, 1987,
• What do we have in Jesus ? Wuppertal-Elberfeld: Publishing house and writing mission of the Evangelical Society for Germany, 1974
• The end of Protestantism ? Wuppertal-Elberfeld: Publishing house and writing mission of the Evangelical Society for Germany, 1973
• Testimonials from {125 [one hundred and twenty-five] years [n] Evangelical Society for Germany , Wuppertal-Elberfeld: Verlag und Schriftenmission d. Evang. Ges. F. Germany, 1973
• Called by the Lord , Wuppertal-Elberfeld: Verlag und Schriftenmission der Evangelische Gesellschaft für Deutschland, 1971
• No other Jesus , Wuppertal-Elberfeld: Verlag und Schriftenmission der Evangelische Gesellschaft für Deutschland, 1970
• In the fight against the false teachers , Wuppertal-Elberfeld: Verlag und Schriftenmission der Evangelische Gesellschaft für Deutschland, 1968
• No other gospel , Wuppertal-Elberfeld: Verlag und Schriftenmission der Evangelische Gesellschaft für Deutschland, 1967
• Congregation Jesu, Allianz, Oekumene , Wuppertal-Elberfeld: Publishing and writing mission of the Evangelical Society for Germany, 1966
• The solid reason , Wuppertal-Elberfeld: Publishing house and writing mission of the Evangelical Society for Germany, 1966
• Check the spirits , Geyser, Paul. - Wuppertal-Elberfeld: Publishing house and writing mission of the Evangelical Society for Germany, 1964
• Confession , Wuppertal-Elberfeld: Verlag und Schriftenmission d. Evang. Society for Germany, 1964 and 1965
• The baptism , Wuppertal-Elberfeld: publisher and the editorial mission of the Evangelical Society of Germany, 1962
• From the life of a child of God , Wuppertal-Elberfeld: Verlag und Schriftenmission der Evangelische Gesellschaft für Deutschland, 1962
• Assurance of Salvation - Can I Know I Will Go to Heaven? , Wuppertal-Elberfeld: Publishing and writing mission of the Evangelical Society for Germany, 1962 and 1973
• Attack on the church , Wuppertal-Elberfeld: Verlag und Schriftenmission der Evangelische Gesellschaft für Deutschland, 1960, 1961 and 1968
• The Last Supper , Wuppertal-Elberfeld: Publishing and writing mission of the Evangelical Society for Germany, 1960 and 1968; VOB Union Verlag, Berlin 1961
• Our mission today , Wuppertal-Elberfeld: Publishing and writing mission of the Evangelical Society for Germany, 1959 and 1960
• From the Last Supper of Jesus Christ , Kreuztal (Westphalia): Buchdienst-Verlag, 1949
• The message of the letter to the Hebrews in sermons , Wuppertal: Publishing and writing mission of the Evangelical Society for Germany

As editor

• The solid ground , magazine
• Current questions , publication series with 21 volumes

literature

• Gisa Bauer: Evangelical Movement and Evangelical Church in the Federal Republic of Germany: History of a Basic Conflict (1945 to 1989) , Volume 53 of Works on Contemporary Church History, Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht , Göttingen 2012, ISBN 978-3-525-55770-9

Web links

• Literature by and about Heinrich Jochums in the catalog of the German National Library
• History of the Evangelical Society for Germany

Individual evidence

1. ^ Short biography of Heinrich Jochum and description of his book Heilsicherung
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3. ↑ http://www.bibelbund.de/geschichte.htm